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Avocado vs Icon - What's the difference?

avocado | icon |

As nouns the difference between avocado and icon

is that avocado is avocado (fruit) while icon is an image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.

avocado

English

Noun

  • The large, usually yellowish-green or black, pulpy fruit of the avocado tree.
  • The avocado tree, , of the laurel family.
  • A dull yellowish-green colour, the colour of the meat of an avocado.
  • Synonyms

    * (fruit): alligator pear, avocado pear, butter pear

    Derived terms

    * avocado pear

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of a dull yellowish-green colour.
  • See also

    * California roll * guacamole *

    References

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    icon

    English

    (wikipedia icon)

    Alternative forms

    * eikon, ikon

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.
  • A religious painting, often done on wooden panels.
  • A person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing.
  • That man is an icon in the business; he personifies loyalty and good business sense.
  • A small picture which represents something (such as an icon on a computer screen which when clicked performs some function.)
  • (linguistics) A type of noun whereby the form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic words are necessarily all icons. See also (symbol) and (index).
  • Pictual representations of files, programs and folders on a computer.
  • Derived terms

    * aniconic, aniconism * iconism

    Anagrams

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